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The claim

Videos of Virat Kohli condemning the Kolkata rape case incident.

Original publisher’s rating

FALSE

Reviewed by FACTLY ↗ ·

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Original review summary

FACTLY reports that one video dates to 6 January 2017, when Kohli responded to the Bengaluru mass molestation incident, and the other uses audio manipulated from a 2022 RCB podcast. It says it found no official statement from Kohli regarding the Kolkata rape case.[S1]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] FACTLY original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026

Original review: FACTLY. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms. Summaries and context are produced by PeakMetrics with AI assistance.

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